In the world of Cittàgazze the angels Balthamos and Baruch try to persuade Lyra's friend Will to take the subtle knife to Lord Asriel, whose army is preparing to fight the Magisterium, but Will insists on finding Lyra first. In her drugged sleep, Lyra dreams of meeting her friend Roger in the land of the dead, and promises to help. Lyra's ambitious and hardhearted mother, Mrs Coulter, hides her in a remote cave. Having learned of the witches' prophecy that Lyra Belacqua is the second Eve, the Magisterium decides she must be killed to prevent a new fall. Important plot devices are the alethiometer, a truth-telling symbol reader the subtle knife, capable of cutting windows between worlds and the amber spyglass, a device for viewing the form of consciousness known as Dust. In some of these worlds, humans' souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sentient " dæmons" in animal form.
The novel is set in a number of worlds dominated by the Magisterium, a theocracy which actively suppresses heresy. It was named Children's Book of the Year at the 2001 British Book Awards, and was the first children's book to be longlisted for the Booker Prize. Published in 2000, it won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, the first children's novel to do so. For the next book in the series, The Amber Spyglass, I made sure I chose the version that was narrated by Philip Pullman himself together with an excellent cast of voice actors.The Amber Spyglass is the third novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. I still enjoyed the story and the actors provided the voices of the characters were great, but when it finished I felt rather unsatisfied and that I had missed out on certain elements. Without any visual aid it can be difficult to appreciate and fully immerse yourself in the story as it’s hard to imagine locations or the mood and thoughts of the characters. It also meant missing out on all the amazing descriptive words of Philip Pullman which beautifully tie everything in this story together.
The difference was that this version of The Subtle Knife was entirely dramatised, missing out all the narration that was not speech. If I had done this, I would have seen that the total running time was only 2 hours and 26 mins, compared to the other version which was around 12 hours.
Too Short - due to no background narrationĪs this was my first ever Audible purchase, I should have read the full description more carefully, comparing it to the other Audible version available.
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